Today, we carried on in our workshop to prepare and create all the bits and pieces we will need for our Skylight framework. We sliced up the plywood strips we made yesterday (744 mm wide by 2400 mm long) into 10 unique sized pieces ranging from 1165 mm to 2385 mm lengths, a total of 20 pieces. We labelled them A to J in pairs of two, and the two large end pieces labelled as “3” and “6”.
Then, we cut a series of square notches on some of the boards which are needed to avoid the steel tie cross bars, so everything is now a jigsaw and will (hopefully) fit all together smoothly and tight like a glove!
They are now lying on our trolley and covered up with tarpaulin.
20-Strip-of-Ply-for-inside-of-Kerb
Then, we took the two piles of 327mm lengths of timber pieces, one is 63mm wide by 38mm and the other piece is 31mm by 38mm wide. We glued these together to form a T shaped composite piece. We made 52 of this T shape and 4 L shaped ones.
Kerb-Piece-glued-together
And finally, to close off the day and while waiting for the glue to set, we set up four trestle legs outside on the driveway, and sliced down the middle of 4 lengths of 89mm CLS timber to make 69mm wide pieces. But we had trouble with the circular saw machine and it produced wider and angled pieces so on Saturday, we will put them through our planer / thickener machine to square them back up again and get the size back to 69mm too!
It is a very fiddly list of parts for our Skylight and we haven’t finished yet, for example, we need various thickness of Foam insulation to fill in the void inside the framework etc. – phew!